718 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Атат 
acres in the two cases werte" cannot be:said | of Whea t per aere Wis T fece yards i ina garden | Commencing e witk an ear-of Nursen — 
to be of the denom — | plot cannot anticipate next year a similar | аз year by year пасо 
hey differ in the depth and thoroug per aere over 10,000 tin imes un extent—yet pi ue | fully the m ofthe finest SEE =} s 
of their — in the artifieial Teri the breeder of good Short-horns, he has r so next year’s-crop, and i mproving every 
° their soil, -and е а the|many years followed up the treatment F the | harvest, he has Эт length mor 
quantity of superinten dence and care whi ch they | produce until of the last year’s growth he ean say „віле ides n ea 
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how large schemes of cultivation in whieh steam m- series will certainly exhibit the character of|the -va aud history ot. рени 
power is to displaee the hand- worked di and [its predecessors. ^ Carelessness will ultimately | recorde Е ба have in this plan ane 
the horse-drawn plough, may fail of all they. | de est roy its character ; E ges Rien will barely 
romise owing to the quantity of $ cial са ess will imp Е 
h detail dob. кы. ШЧ thing < paee and | A-well bred Short-horn heifer has yielded 8 cwt. гутеите із а summary of во 
which operations on thegreatscale c vethem. of beef at 22 months old. Мо one ean reason from | — — -— { 
Апа all his aiempi to baag шй и » | this n to the conclusion that ordinary feeding- 
success ful is ie Һау е bee n bas ed o n the importan pwi vum rit results over a herd 
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so necessary WA success. The need o f. history of КН ES other heifers of.good pedigre 
reis mm in the - of . animals he vay ma ee ow by breeding from similar lens 
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milk or poultry would be sure to fail. This "Wheat has been grown at some hardly credi ible 
— care and superintendence is, however, | rate per aere. No one "would. expect under ordi 
eeded in the ease of plants as well as animals; пагу agricultural circumstances to reap a corres- 
and тату оду d нй that the gardener will do | ponding return on the eat fields of a far 
than the farmer in the production of speci- but from the history of t other plots of 
в. 1t ell t to bear in that owing to | Wheat having a good pedigree (if there be such 
1 he conditions of the | hing in such a ease), ke sure, by the 
cases, а certain distrust is justifiable o | use of such grain аз see erop whieh shall 
a agricultural inferences from horticultural | | show a str ng tendeney to exhibit the characte 
apenan or productiveness which it has inherited. 10 
however, exaetly understand within | Now, the purpose of this long preamble is 
od init this distrust is to be allowed. And to introduee the announcement that there is 
to this end w i h 
we. шау reason.again from the analogies | Such a thing аза ** Pedigree Wheat." “Probab y all 
of sn fir T MELLE i called CoaTEs's | good. sorts originating in single selected ears have 
Herd Book, which 12 volumes, containing | more or.less a:pedigree—a certain proportion of the |? 
Ya ,000 animals, have appeared, | produce has each year bee rejected :as iüferior, | ! 
single entry of the -parentage of each of these and from the remainder only, the cm 
;eattle, осо oceupyin perhaps half-a-dozen lines, in derived -which = нме offered in the 
one or other = = olumes, indieates paa m market. "We e .however lately made. "the 
fact чет" д sben Dap uaintance, fi 
agricultural papers. а latterly in the fields where | 
“the ке ofatrue* ums 
B | аан н ОМА emt Wheat. t lot Mr. H 
eare: these animals are worth more than animals SA ora ап рее in the mi mioseope i U is ue gress of 
LA equal size and health, which Havo [isis "hrod | fair. 1 W we rom 
out any special iudividu al.a or super- | han 7 as we write, The lowost set of floret 
intendens, by from 50 to 500 per cent., and even ды. 4 n the figure has been broken off—it was | where-we we 
e. Turn these ift, give them | gath: стой xd and por being fully ripe, in order | 
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нти of a yery few years the ey will lose their shrank, "t however more than a quater of an 
valuable properi les. neh in len ngth, and сеге айну чш width, The 
It mere whim or fashion, no mere aeci- sets are generally of five grains each, four at|to bearin m 
dental or market. value: — makes them worth so either end, and there are 15 on each side of es early in Ju uly, and w - 
much—the possessi on of a pedigree is s атеш enl the rachis, ыз is pr deis з most me ARA o the number of sets aud la Б 
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though a man who hasgrown 10 quarters | part of ere) where the vue had been|* 
—— € "perd а "foot. apart E every way, at the rate of 
century ago, when "CHARLES Corrmxa's ts per aere—and of БЕКА i s on tw 
heiter, named Duchess. was bought by mr o e dibbled. == et d. oen дал 123 g grains, while A lads io 
bo ori horns known аз is Doch wh Ас асте other met: - ind orin the engraving, contains bu 
гЗ ia | ће ra ти of 6 pecks с те, ам ade d of, МУ it was gathe jm 
interesting. point in Mr, Har: say exactl 
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di menced the eareful «табов of the Wheat. plant, 
Ses. tancy, qualities which re-appear 
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true hood from year-tó у on this point, let 
Lr e "ме" just having СЕЕ ‘this year 
apri ptu wal re ace inf по бопьь° means hád in into eer ar dot 
herd, we ЗЕ skill and M just as pu of TER DAS s arum that "е те i of tho žhe: ME 
» Patience, , are felt on both sides of the Atlantic'atthe-present day." being concentrated upon | half 
